Many IT environments use multiple applications and multiple data sources, making it challenging to:

Automate business processes across applications

Modify business processes

Make relevant business insight

Provide access across applications

When Oracle Business Intelligence is used in conjunction with SOA composite applications, your organization can meet these challenges. Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Intelligence enable business analysts to:

Gain insight from monitor and analyze business-process data. Oracle BAM provides visibility of in-flight BPEL processes and Oracle Business Intelligence shows the business impact of process performance by integrating application and process data and providing ad-hoc analysis and reporting.

Take action from the dashboards, alerts, and reports provided by Oracle Business Intelligence. For example, a BI dashboard can initiate a BPEL process.

Orientate business processes towards business goals. You can design a BPEL process to leverage business metrics in Oracle Business Rules and generate, access, and deliver business intelligence reports.

Specifically, Oracle Business Intelligence helps answer key business questions by providing the following output to business analysts:

Production reports support all document types, such as invoices, checks, statements, and government forms.